Generalized Anxiety Disorder | ADHD Information

I deleted my post earlier, sorry wasn't sure about it. But I'd like to try again. Anyways. Does anyone else have this? How do they deal with it? Some of the things I can worry about are my family, work, personal life, even online life. Basically usual everyday things. I feel so worried that I can't even watch the news on television most of the time, it's too depressing for me. When it comes to my health, I do panic about "What if I have this?" or something like that. I over obsess about it for days, and worry. If it's my asthma, if it's acting up I always think "Am I having an attack?" I also worry about my friends, if they're ever annoyed by me from my hyper activity, because when I'm hyper I tend to talk at a fast pace and say whatever's on my mind and repeat thing's over and over and over. These are just some of the things I worry about. But I do get reassurred by family that everything's okay.

Go to Amazon.com and buy and read the following book: "The Whisper in Your Heart." It won't make the worry go away immediately, but if you work at it, things will really start to change and you'll find yourself able to relax and feel more confident that all will be well. And I'm not kidding.

I recently met the author on a trip to Arizona, am most of the way through the book and have been wow'ed by it. So do yourself a favor!

Try to get some beta blockers and see if that helps, it helped me. Since it's just blood pressure medicine your doctor shouldn't object.

I know how you feel. When I was diagnosed with ADHD, I was also diagnosed with General Anxiety Disorder which brought on panic attacks & OCD. The doctor put me on Lexapro & what a godsend. I still worry & clean but not like I used to. I could tell the results immediately.

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I don't have ADHD--my girlfriend does--but I do have GAD and have also been diagnosed BiPolar II. I use Klonopin for when my anxiety gets REALLY bad (like when my palms start sweating and I get a trembly feeling), but I CAN NOT STRESS ENOUGH how effective exercise is for helping with anxiety. I have a small rebound trampoline at home and I jump on it for 15-20 minutes a day and I take a half hour walk each day, and whenever for any reason I stop doing those things, my anxiety flares up like crazy, and keeps me awake at night WORRYING. When I'm exercising, it stays pretty managable, and doesn't spiral out of control like it used to do.

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The same thing happens to me! I have anxiety and panic attacks. They don't happen often and I can go almost a year without an attack. Recently they have been flairing up so I decide to start tracking the differences in my life that could trigger an attack. I usually run 4x per week or more if I am training for a race. I discovered that the panic attacks only happen when I stop running for a period of time. I took a week off recently and boom-panic attack in 7 days. the combination of too much caffeine and not enough excersize it what sets it off for me. I think more doctors should reccomend excersize regularaly to help combat anxiety! Oh, I do not take med at this time.

I am also being treated for ADD and GAD. My 2 main meds are now adderall and Lexapro. I haven't had a panic attack in many yrs., but I always felt on the verge of one, and always worried. And if there was nothing at the moment to worrie about, I'd always come up with something!

Lexapro diden't work immediately, It was about a month. I've been taking it for 3 mos. now and it sure is a Godsend. MUCH less anxiety, so I feel alot calmer and I can reason better. Sure alot of bad stuff can happen, but now I think of how I can act to avoid them, and when if something does happen, I can handle it much better Of course I will always have those "bad brain" days. Comes with the territory, compliments of ADD!

Get an evaluation by a psycologist. It sounds like you have an anxiety disorder. I also, take Lexapro for anxiety along w/ Adderal for ADD. The Lexapro helps me so much. It helped me feel in control and not worry. I also exercise regularly and it definately does help.

Hi - When my psychotherapist diagnosed me with ADHD, she said that I also had Anxiety. And I guess I have trouble understanding (like ADHD) how my worrying is different than other peoples'. The ol' "Doesn't everyone feel this way?!?"

Last Monday, I thought I was having an Asthma attack (I have mild asthma), I got concerned because my inhaler didn't take care of all the symptoms. I went in to see the doctor and he said that he believed that it was an Anxiety attack.

He gave me Fluoxetine. I've been on it a week now and I've already noticed a big difference in my calmness level. I am much more calm, not overreacting to things like I was.

I think my anxiety level has been steadily building for nearly a year now. Raising a new son, and 14 yo stepdaughter. Part of my job is getting outsourced and I don't know if I'll be staying on this team or not. And my husband got very very sick. He's better now - thank goodness.

I was told that it could be 2 weeks to a month before I can get full effect from the med, but I already notice things that would really upset me, I now just take them in stride. :)

Autumnstar

i have generalised anxiety disorder too, and started having panic attacks which turned into panic disorder by the time i was 11. i also had social phobia and agoraphobia. i now only have anxiety, isolated panic attacks, and a while ago i got really claustrophobic which was bad coz i was at uni and had to keep leaving lectures and couldn't go back in. i also couldn't catch the bus there :P i'm not sure what to do. i'm not on medication for a.d.d or anxiety. it won't seem to go away, and it gets a lot worse when i study and get stressed. but i've dropped out now :( ive also had depression and i have hypoglycemia. i worry about my asthma too! i always think i'm having an asthma attack when i'm out. i get really scared about what i eat and if it will trigger an asthma attack, and going outside at night in the cold. i'm not on medications for any of these things. i'm supposed to be trying all of the 'alternatives' first. which seems to be just talking to a psychologist which i've only seen once so far coz its kinda expensive but i don't even remember what they said! they did give me a lot of reading to do which i lost/forgot about and i lose concentration after skimming the first page. i'm afraid of medication though! but at the moment i have no job no study.. i'm worried i'll feel different or act differently or have some unknown sideaffect. sorry this post is so long btw!! hehehe. i know i wouldn't be able to read it all :P